Word: digging
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When President Andrew Johnson was facing impeachment charges after the Civil War, Eddie Foy started on his career as a professional entertainer, turning handsprings in Manhattan saloons and "passing the hat" for an outdoor fiddler. When French engineers ventured to dig the Panama Canal, Mr. Foy was shuffle-dancing and tumbling before miners in the mushroom towns of the Wild West. When Theodore Roosevelt called for Rough Riders, Eddie Foy was in bright lights, a symbol of spry clowning. By the time che Kaiser had started for Paris, "Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys" had be come a vaudeville...
...Honolulu is tired of delay," said Flyer Clarke. "I don't much care if I am disqualified as a Dole entrant or not. I imagine if I get there first Dole will dig...
Mayan Items. Though he did not dig, U. S. Vice President Charles Gates Dawes exhibited scholarly interest in archaeology when he visited Panama last spring. He went home to Chicago bearing souvenirs from the Mayan ruins of Cocle Province. A stone elephant aroused his curiosity specially; also, a possible original of the see-no-evil, speak-no-evil, hear-no-evil monkey images of Japan...
...These do not include the expeditions of scientists who dig beneath the earth's surface for lost cities, tombs, treasures, fossils, jaw bones of ancient men and animals. Diggers' recent doings will be summarized in another issue of TIME...
...sharp dig because Mr. Snowden's own budget went through with a comfortable surplus...